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Here are the toots from my Mastodon account. If you’re into ham radio and technology this is a great inclusive server with an awesome mascot called Alex.
Etherify: This is a really cool hack which uses ethtool to transmit morse which is then picked up by an SDR.
https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Nov/4
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueC4SLPrtNg
→ View toot on mastodon.radioThe first release candidate for WSJT-X 2.3.0 is out.
This release adds two new modes for LF/MF, called FST4 and FST4W.
I had heard some rumours about this but not looked into them!
Release notes at:
http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/Release_Notes.txt
Mailing list message at:
https://sourceforge.net/p/wsjt/mailman/message/37117193/
I’ve not managed to install this on my Pi, despite it running the Buster version of Rasbpian, there’s no version of libgfortran that’s new enough.
But considering I’m not on 2200 and 630 m that’s no great loss!
Ahh, the deps are wrong, expecting an updated package at some point.
→ View toot on mastodon.radioThese new(ish) RX-888 SDRs look interesting:
https://www.rtl-sdr.com/nils-reviews-the-rx-888-a-sub-200-16-bit-32-mhz-bandwidth-sdr/
and
https://dk8ok.org/2020/09/04/rx-888-32-mhz-16bit-200-us-pricks-up-your-ears/
1 to 32 MHz via direct sampling, and streamed over USB. Nice!
→ View toot on mastodon.radiohttp://k0lwc.com/new-ham-radio-onboard-the-iss-is-on-the-air/
The new radio on the ISS is a modified Kenwood D710G, nice.
→ View toot on mastodon.radioAlmost downloaded a gig of MPLAB to try to program a PIC using a pre-supplied hex file…
… only to discover there’s a tiny GUI tool for the PICkit 3 programmer I have. Win! Actually, I just used Windows as last time I tried this stuff on Linux it was really hard.
I definitely prefer AVR stuff, but I guess that’s what I’m used to.
I’m building an N7DDC ATU kit from eBay.
Overheard: I just don’t want another bit of communications equipment on the house!
→ View toot on mastodon.radioGreat to see The Dork Web’s recent radio content – https://thedorkweb.substack.com/p/the-dork-web-missing-links
This is one of my favourite newsletters at the moment, check it out if you like deep dives into miscellaneous nerdery (you know you do!).
It also mentions @DC7IA@chaos.social’s ham list, which is great 👌
→ View toot on mastodon.radioDCC looks interesting!
https://tapr.org/papers-of-the-2020-arrl-tapr-digital-communications-conference-dcc/
So many online conferences, so little time!
→ View toot on mastodon.radioReally enjoyed the bits of the GQRP online convention I made it to and looking forward to the recordings of the rest.
Some sessions had close to 300 people in attendance!
→ View toot on mastodon.radioOK, so I don’t use the 30% keyboards I built in the past, but I still want one of these:
https://www.40percent.club/2020/08/gherkin-express.html
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